| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| The father of Western philosophical tradition | Socrates | 93%
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| Greek god of war | Ares | 82%
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| Greek god of the dead | Hades | 78%
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| Greek hero of the Trojan War | Achilles | 76%
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| Greek messenger of the gods | Hermes | 71%
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| Greek "Father of Medicine" | Hippocrates | 69%
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| Egyptian pharaoh who was called "the Great" | Ramesses | 69%
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| Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer | Archimedes | 67%
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| The Roman equivalent of the above | Hercules | 67%
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| Female name meaning "mercies", or a make of car | Mercedes | 58%
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| One of the three great Greek tragedians | Sophocles or Euripides | 56%
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| Fifth king of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia | Xerxes | 56%
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| The greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity | Heracles | 51%
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| Roman goddess of agriculture, or dwarf planet | Ceres | 47%
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| Greek general who also led Athens (Shakespeare play) | Pericles | 42%
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| Courtier of Dionysus, his "sword" a symbol of ever-present danger | Damocles | 40%
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| Latin name for the Greek hero of The Odyssey | Ulysses | 38%
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| Family name of Dune protagonist Paul | Atreides | 27%
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| Greek "Father of Comedy" | Aristofanes | 24%
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| German folklore demon in the Faust legend | Mephistopheles | 22%
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